Cultural Catchup

Cultural Learnings’ Cultural Catchup Project is a long-term endeavour designed to catch up on a number of important television series that for various reasons have slipped under my radar. For more information on why I’m starting the project, and how the first series was chosen, click here.

Analysis of the series’ two-part pilot, focused on its resistance to traditional origin stories and the challenges of scale in terms of confronting the end of the world through the lens of high school students in small-town America.

Season Two

An analysis of the role that characters’ personalities – and the changes, evolution and introduction of those personalities – play in the opening six episodes of the show’s second season (“When She Was Bad” to “Halloween”).

Analysis of how the series handles the split between Angel and the former employees of Angel Investigations, and how the substantial change actually contributes to longstanding themes which remain central to the series.

Hi! I had been following you on Twitter for a while and read articles on other shows. I enjoy your insights. I, too, am catching up on BtVS. I became a Whenonista after Dr horrible, and h e devoured the rest of his stuff. Not having seen Buffy felt like a major defect. I am through Season 4 and like to come here after I watch to read your thoughts

All that being said, would you PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE hotlink the rest of this page to the mentioned posts? It would make it so much easier for me, and for others who are catching up.

Hey Myles. I was just curious if you were going to be watching “Ringer” this season. If so, I was hoping you could share your thoughts, particularly in reference to Sarah Michelle Gellar, considering your current analysis of Buffy.